Letter from WSC (72 Brook Street) to Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] asking him to have produced a report on weather conditions in the Dardanelles in October, November and December and to see Commodore Roger Backhouse about the naval guns which have not yet been landed. Expresses anxiety that the sanitary conditions should be adequate for the winter campaign. Printed copy.

Cabinet memorandum by WSC rejecting the view that the establishment by the Germans of through communications with Constantinople will immediately make the Allied army's position in Gallipoli untenable. Reprinted February 1917.

War Committee notes by WSC on: the need for the troops in Gallipoli to be supplied with new gas respirators; the justification of using gas against the Turks; the opportunity to learn from problems encountered by the French in the recruitment of native troops. Printed copy.

Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: draft of WSC's statement on operations to the end of the first phase. Manuscript in WSC's hand and typescript. Includes: (at folio 3) letter of 23 Aug 1916 from Alexander MacCallum Scott to WSC enclosing a suggested synopsis of his main points (at folios 5-8) and advising him on how to treat the decision to abandon the naval assault.

"Dardanelles Inquiry. Statement by Mr Churchill upon the Dardanelles Operations to the end of the first phase." Printed draft with annotations by WSC.

Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: statement by WSC on operations to the end of the first phase. Printed proof.

Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: statement by WSC on operations to the end of the first phase. Printed proof annotated by WSC.

Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: statement by WSC on operations to the end of the first phase. Printed proof annotated by WSC. Written 25 Sep, printed 26 Sep.

Letter from WSC to Lord Cromer correcting the impression given by part of his statement to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry that the Cabinet did not discuss, and were not kept informed about, the military attack. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/92.

Letter from Lord Kitchener (War Office) to WSC giving his opinion that nothing much can be done to help the Russians in the Caucasus and that "the only place that a demonstration might have some effect in stopping reinforcements going East would be the Dardanelles." Printed copy.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Lord Kitchener arguing that only those battleships needed for the initial stage of the Dardanelles bombardment should be used at the outset and that the seizure of Alexandretta should be attempted at the same time as the bombardment so that it can be represented as the main operation if the attack on the Dardanelles is checked. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/52.

Memorandum by WSC to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener on the terms of naval co-operation with France in the eastern Mediterranean. With note by Grey that the French should be allowed to have what they want in this sphere, even a share in the occupation of Alexandretta. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/54.

Letter in French from Victor Augagneur [French Minister of the Marine] (Paris) to [WSC] indicating agreement with British proposals for Angle-French naval co-operation in the eastern Mediterranean with reference to the attacks on the Dardanelles and Alexandretta (31 Jan). With notes that Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener have seen the letter and that WSC thinks it is satisfactory (3 Feb). Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/56.

Fragmentary notes by WSC on the planning of the Dardanelles campaign.

Fragmentary notes by WSC on the planning of the Dardanelles campaign.

Statement by [WSC] to [the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry] arguing that far more resources were squandered on the ineffective offensives on the Western Front in 1916 than would have been needed to attain the much more valuable objective of forcing the passage of the Dardanelles. Annotated typescript draft.

Statement by WSC (referring to himself in the third person) justifying his role in the Dardanelles campaign, arguing that the plan for a purely naval attack abandoned prematurely in favour of a joint naval and military attack which could only be undertaken in unfavourable circumstances. Draft in WSC's hand headed "notes as a guide".

Letter from Lord Kitchener (War Office) to WSC stating that preparations for land operations [at the Dardanelles] are continuing and hoping that the Navy will engage the forts vigorously so that the Turks expend their ammunition. Typescript copy annotated by WSC for inclusion in a publication.

Notes of figures by WSC having some bearing on the Dardanelles campaign.

Notes by WSC on the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.

Official report of House of Commons debates including application for a debate on the excisions made in the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry report.

Extract from an article from the military correspondent of the Times blaming "the Higher Direction of the War in London" for the failure of the Dardanelles campaign. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/90/1.

Letter from David Davis (House of Commons) to WSC enclosing notes on war policy in the Balkans to be discussed by the Liberal War Committee [see CHAR 2/90/12-24]. Signed typescript.